UPDATE: This event has SOLD OUT. Thank you to all of the teachers and schools who expressed interest in this event. We are in the process of planning additional professional development opportunities to begin in February, 2015. To be notified of these and other future NYCWP offerings, please […]

The New York City Writing Project’s Teacher to Teacher Conference for 2015 will take place on Saturday, March 28, 2015 at Lehman College. We are thrilled to announce that this year’s Keynote Speaker will be Taylor Mali. Taylor Mali is one of the most well-known poets to have emerged from the poetry slam movement. Born […]

The New York City Writing Project remains committed to supporting teachers in finding and developing the necessary resources to engage their students in classroom conversations and inquiry surrounding the current movement for justice in our country. If you would like to contribute to this compilation, please email admin@nycwritingproject.org. In […]

Earlier this summer, NYCWP Teacher-Leaders met with musician John Legend and Executive Director of the National Writing Project (NWP) Elyse Eidman-Aadahl to discuss Legend’s latest philanthropic ventures in education and the ways in which he is partnering with NWP to support teachers across the country. On the heels of publication in […]

The events in Ferguson, Missouri over the last several weeks, which have been covered extensively on social networks and, to a lesser extent, in the media, are an extremely difficult–and extremely important–topic to discuss with our students. This is especially true for those of us who teach older students who […]

NYCWP Teacher-Leaders recently met with musician John Legend and Executive Director of the National Writing Project (NWP) to discuss Legend’s latest philanthropic ventures in education. Participants had the opportunity to share their teaching practice with Legend, as well as to ask him questions about his music, his […]

For the last several years, the New York City Writing Project has sponsored a celebration of student writing at the historic Nuyorican Poets Café. The Café has been called “the most integrated place on the planet” by Alan Ginsberg and serves as a venue to present groundbreaking works of literature, […]

This year the NYCWP made great strides to expand its offerings to young writers in our Youth Voices programming. This development has become possible through grants totaling $50,000 from the Hive Digital Media Learning Fund of the New York Community Trust and the National Writing Project. The 2014 Youth Voices […]